A coworker of mine was recently let go. Each week he flew into the job site so it wasn’t reasonable for him to clean out his desk. Due to some miscommunication, we didn’t get the combination to his locked drawers. By coincidence, I had just watched a video about getting through numeric locks.
We all hope for these situations. Our unusual skills come into play and we get to save the day with some MacGuyver-esque demonstration. I didn’t have the particular tool used in the video but I had printed some labels for work with the company name as well as some labels for my personal equipment. The labels were thin plastic and pretty stiff so I cut the edge of one to a probe shape.
Since the video taught me what the lock looked like on the inside and the basic operation, I was able to make some educated guesses about what to look for. In the video, the locks have a bump on the wheels in exactly one location. In the particular lock I was trying to get through, there were divots in exactly one location. As I rotated, it was pretty apparent when my paper label fell into that divot.
The other factor from the video was that the bump, or divot in my case, would have to be rotated a particular number of degrees since the cam on each wheel would need to interact with a bar which wouldn’t be facing me. In the case of this lock, the wheels needed to be rotated 180°. The time with my paper inside the lock took me about as long as a commercial break in a television program about a resourceful man with a mullet.
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Numeric locking drawers
We all hope for these situations. Our unusual skills come into play and we get to save the day with some MacGuyver-esque demonstration. I didn’t have the particular tool used in the video but I had printed some labels for work with the company name as well as some labels for my personal equipment. The labels were thin plastic and pretty stiff so I cut the edge of one to a probe shape.
Small plastic label on 1/4" squares
Since the video taught me what the lock looked like on the inside and the basic operation, I was able to make some educated guesses about what to look for. In the video, the locks have a bump on the wheels in exactly one location. In the particular lock I was trying to get through, there were divots in exactly one location. As I rotated, it was pretty apparent when my paper label fell into that divot.
Finding the divot
The other factor from the video was that the bump, or divot in my case, would have to be rotated a particular number of degrees since the cam on each wheel would need to interact with a bar which wouldn’t be facing me. In the case of this lock, the wheels needed to be rotated 180°. The time with my paper inside the lock took me about as long as a commercial break in a television program about a resourceful man with a mullet.
Success!
More COMPLETED project have been arranged by date.
First time here?
Completed projects from year 1.
Completed projects from year 2.
Completed projects from year 3.
Disclaimer for http://24hourengineer.blogspot.com/ and http://24hourengineer.com/
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All information in this blog, or linked by this blog, is not to be taken as advice or solicitation. Anyone attempting to replicate, in whole or in part, is responsible for the outcome and procedure. Any loss of functionality, money, property or similar, is the responsibility of those involved in the replication.
All digital communication regarding the email address 24hourengineer@gmail.com becomes the intellectual property of Brian McEvoy. Any information contained within these messages may be distributed or retained at the discretion of Brian McEvoy. Any email sent to this address, or any email account owned by Brian McEvoy, cannot be used to claim property or assets.
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2017-12-18 (M)
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